Current
Season
Team
History
All-Time Leaders Batting
Pitching
League Championship Titles: 1921,
1936
Ballpark: Seals Stadium
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Seals Stadium Opened: 1931
Capacity: 16,000
16th Street and Bryant Street, San
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Factors
AVG overall 1.036
LHB 1.042, RHB 1.033
Doubles .987
Triples 1.226
HR overall .374
LHB .354, RHB .385 |
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Distances/wall heights
Left Field line 365 ft./15 ft.
Left Field 365 ft./15 ft.
Left-Center Field 400 ft./15 ft.
Center Field 404 ft./15 ft.
Right-Center 400 ft./15 ft.
Right Field 372 ft./15 ft.
Right Field line 385 ft./15 ft. |
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In the Redux
The Seals have two Pacific Coast League
championships but have yet to win a World Series
title. The Seals also made postseason appearances
in 1922, 1925, 1928, 1932, 1939, and 1940.
Real-life history
There were many professional baseball leagues
that sprang up in California for a season or two
in the 1870s and 1880s. It would be an
understatement to say that San Francisco had a
team in all of those early leagues; in some of
them, San Francisco had all the teams.
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The ’35 champs had Lefty O’Doul at the
helm, DiMaggio in the corn, and, perhaps
inspired by O’Doul’s frequent trips to
Japan, a logo that read right to left. |
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O’Doul took the whole team with him on
the 1949 excursion that produced this
nifty souvenir. |
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The 1903 San Francisco Seals retained many of the
members of the 1902 California League’s San
Francisco entry, so it may or may not have been a
new team; in any event, that was the team that
represented the city in the brand new Pacific
Coast League. As the club was owned by J. Cal
Ewing, who also owned the Oakland Oaks, the “San
Francisco” Seals sometimes played home games
across the Bay.
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This musclebound pinniped cranes his neck
to torturous extremes in demonstrating
that some species are better suited to
anthropomorphism than others. |
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In 1907, a new ballpark, Recreation Park, became
their home for the next two decades. They won
their first pennant in 1909, followed by titles in
1915, 1917, 1922, 1923, and 1925. In 1931 they
unveiled 18,600-seat Seals Stadium and won the
pennant their first season there. They also won
pennants in 1935, 1946, and 1957, their final year
in San Francisco.
One of the Seals’ owners in the 1940’s,
businessman Paul Fagan, pushed for the PCL to gain
acceptance as the third Major League. He eschewed
affiliation with major league clubs and spent
lavishly in an attempt to upgrade Seals Stadium to
a major league facility. Lacking sufficient
support from the other PCL owners, Fagan’s
ambitions failed, paving the way for MLB’s
usurpation of the PCL’s largest cities.
The Seals became the longtime minor league
affiliate of the team that displaced them, the San
Francisco Giants, playing a few years in Tacoma
and the rest of the time in Phoenix. Since 1998
they have been affiliated with the Arizona
Diamondbacks, and are today known as the Reno
Aces.
San Francisco Seals Uniform History
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1921 Home
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1922 Home
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1923 Home
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1921 Away
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1922 Away
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1923 Away
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1924-1933 Home
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1934-1935 Home
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1936 Home
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1924-1927 Away
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1928-1932 Away
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1933-1934 Away
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1935 Away
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1936 Away
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1937 Home
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1938 Home
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1939 Home
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1940 Home
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1941-1942 Home
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1937 Away
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1938-1939 Away
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1940 Away
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1941-1942 Away
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1943 Home
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1944-1945 Home
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1946 Home
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1943 Away
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1944-1945 Away
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1946 Away
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1947-1948 Home
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1949-1950 Home
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1951-1952 Home
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1953-1954 Home
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1955 Home
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1947-1954 Away
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1955 Home
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1956-1957 Home
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1956-1957 Away
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